A series of interconnected buildings, arranged in a sinuous serpentine configuration set within a forested landscape, provide connected communal outdoor spaces. Important sustainability initiatives include a significant reduction of the project’s embodied carbon, by incorporating Mass Timber, efficient mechanical systems with energy recovery measures and sustainable landscape design. The project is the largest cross laminated timber building in the US. Adohi Hall is part of a larger precinct Master Plan, also envisioned by Leers Weinzapfel, looking at this entire southeastern boundary of the campus as a potential site for future housing, parking, and network of pedestrian campus pathways to accommodate future growth of the University.

From programming to construction, an integrated design process allowed for the right decision making early-on, bringing in detailed knowledge of systems and costs to efficiently explore options that simultaneously addressed campus connectivity and residential community. Collaborating Firms: Modus Studio - Architecture Mackey Mitchell Architects - Architecture OLIN - Landscape Architecture Equilibrium Consulting - Mass Timber Structural Design Lizzy Lee - Graphic Design